It’s time for the big reveal to see how the backyard garden fared during the Arctic Blast. Prior to the freezing temperatures, we harvested a bunch of vegetables and covered the beds that had us worried.
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22 Comments
I lost a lot here in FL 😅 we got cold and my garden was like listen we’re not equipped for this foolery 🤣
yea we lost all the veggies, only thing did ok was onions and garlic, we hit single digits in south Louisiana. started over with a few greens. thanks for the update
So in my experience with garlic while I was in the north: knocking back softneck garlic all the way by cold can make the bulbs split if some segments already exist (one of the many reasons I dislike softneck) ; knocking back hardneck does not seem to hurt it — though it may take longer to mature and the bulbs will be smaller.
The only things that survived here in north AL with protection was a couple daikon radishes and garlic— the rest (carrots, spinish, green onions, lettuce, peas) were toast. Time to start the spring garden 🙂
Did you say at one you were looking for Abe Lincoln tomatoes
That's exactly what my broccoli & Cauliflower look like and I covered them
Travis my Brussel sprouts also look the best. I have 6 cabbages not sure they all will make it! A few of my pepper plants all cut and winterized made it. Travis what can I do everyone says don't cut the plant or fertilize it?? But I think the damaged leaves will bring bugs
If you lay a line of old style Christmas lights under the row cover it produces heat that the row cover will hold in.That is assuming you have power with in reach of an extension cord.
Other point is that if you covered the veg with a thick layer of straw and then put the row cover over it insulates very well. We are in a cold zone 3 area and you learn lots about how to protect plants from what are early frosts in our area.
What about the girls.Did you cover them.
I didn’t know Brussels sprouts were that cold hardy! Wow! The polar vortex laid waste to all my mustard and turnip greens, broccoli and cauliflower! I’m going to replant in February.
Sorry to see how much you lost Travis. That freak once in 20-30 years is something none of us could have anticipated when we planted our fall/winter gardens months ago. I put some Hot Hands hand warmers in disposable loaf pans in my raised beds. I covered them with frost cloth and then with tarps, both all the way to the ground. Everything survived (lettuce, spinach, chard, collards, kale). But we only got down to 19 degrees, not 16. I did lose a lot that I wasn't able to cover, or that I just covered with a frost blanket and not tarps like my carrots and parsnips, but at least I was able to save a few things.
Thank you for taking time to respond. Have a great day and looking forward for more videos and information you provide
I lost all my carrots, garlic and celery. It got SO COLD! I was actually surprised they didn’t fair any better, but the weather was unbelievable! Like your headline says…lessons learned.
Excellent video!! 👍🏻
Good learning tips!
Thanks 😊
God bless 🙏🏼
Good evening are you going to make a 2022 best vegetable video like you did for 21 thank you
Found your channel recently. I’m in coastal South Georgia about 30 minutes south of Savannah. Where are you in South Georgia? Had lots of losses even in our greenhouses. That cold snap was crazy!
I have snow and cold all winter anyway. It is the surprise repeat first hard and late frosts that do the damage, aside from freak hail storms that turn Tomato p!ants to leafless sticks, or even freeze damage them. I think many people will grow with caution in previous "semi tropical", and mild winter areas. Just like I can depend on the summer to continue being a blast furnace mkrew than it was in years past. If it rains in Greenland when it didn't in the past decades then you know things have changed.
Dazzling Blue is a lacinato type kale that’s powered through a lot of cold before giving up on me. I’m zone 5b and some years winter comes on fast. It’s always my last man standing.
I was wintering my pepper plants in the garage and even with heat going it was just to cold and all took freeze damage but some plants took a hard freeze on night one. We brought everything into the house in hopes of saving them. A few are not showing any signs of new leaf growth but most seem to be bouncing back. Crazy thing is the lemon and lime trees took that freeze just fine and the lemon tree has the beginning of a tiny bud now!
first year I decided to try and grow my figs in the ground. I covered them as best as I could so hopefully I didnt lose too much.
Wow. That was a hard hit. So sorry. Good advice about diversity of plants like curly kale, spinach…etc.. I was able to bring a ton of potted peppers, tomatoes, tropical trees inside my house. I lost some beautiful peppers last winter because I was lazy and I had no idea they wouldn't make it. I regretted losing them and did much better this year. 9a Florida only got 25-27 at night and back up to 50 during the day. I bought more cabbage and celery at tractor store that was kept outside. I thought if these plants survived without covers, there is good chance they can do well rest of this winter. Good luck rest of winter season!!!
This was our first fall/winter garden. So thank you for saying to not let it discourage us. We did have a frost blanket that helped. In a pot, I did have brussels sprouts that fared well… Did use covers however.